GADSDEN, Alabama -- A Gadsden man was arrested on misdemeanor domestic violence and resisting arrest charges this weekend after police say he struck his two-year-old brother in the head with nunchaku.

According to police reports, officers were called to a home in the 900 block of Vinson Avenue Sunday afternoon around 12 p.m. Upon arriving, they encountered a man swinging nunchaku and refusing to drop the martial arts weapon. Police said the man eventually dropped them but would not cooperate with the arrest.

A woman at the residence said the man was her son. She said he began tearing up his bedroom, leaving holes in the wall. He then began swinging the weapon and hit his brother, leaving a knot in the boy's head, she told police.